Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

And history with all her volumes vast,
Hath but one page.

And history with all her volumes vast,
Hath but one page.

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the read more

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

All history, of course, is the history of wars.

All history, of course, is the history of wars.

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great read more

Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress read more

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his government has read more

If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.

What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.

What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.